Αρχαίοι Συγγραφείς / Ancient Greek & Latin Literature

Lot. 8081 Starting Price: 35 € ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ. “Herodoti halicarnassei historiarum libri IX. Ex optimis exemplaribus emendavit ac notas criticas adiecif G. H. Schaefer”, Lipsiae, Libraria Sommeria, 1800 - 1801. Τόμοι 2 (από τους 3). 8o, σελ. vi, 490 + 536. Εισαγωγικό κείμενο στα λατινικά, κυρίως κείμενο στα ελληνικά. Περιέχει τα βιβλία: Κλειώ, Ευτέρπη, Θάλεια, Μελπομένη, Τερψιχόρη. Δερμάτινες ράχες εποχής έκδ. φθορές εξωτερικά, ελαφρά οξειδωμένες σελ. τίτλου, σχίσιμο στο τελευταίο φύλλο του Α’ τόμου, εσωτερικό κείμενο χωρίς στίγματα και σε πολύ καλή κατάσταση.

Lot. 8082 Starting Price: 180 € [ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ] BEAUZÉE Nicolas, “HISTOIRE D’ALEXANDRE LE GRAND par QUINTE-CURCE”, à Lyon, chez Rusand, 1810. In 12mo, p. (2) , 357 / (3) , 490. With one engraved fold out map at the beginning of each volume (“Graecia et Asia Minor” – “Tabula Geographica”). New retouched edition of this highly esteemed translation of Quinte-Curce, by the grammarian Nicolas Beauzée (1717-1789). Latin text with French opposite. Full rooted calf of the time, in ne condition: smooth spine adorned with gilded eurons and parts of title of garnet morocco and volume number of green morocco, slightly bumped corners, some small snags on the boards, some browning; children’s drawings in pencil on a guard and a contreplat, spatial browning inside, red page edges, clean and sound. Complete and Very Good copy.

Lot. 8083 Starting Price: 120 € [ΠΙΝΔΑΡΟΣ] PINDARI CARMINA Juxta Exemplar Heynianum: Quibus Accesserunt Notae Heynianae (Interpositis Quibusdam Benedictinis) Paraphrasis Benedictina; et LEXICAN PINDARICUM ex Integro Dammii Opere Etymologico Exceptum, et Justa Serie Dispositum. Edited by Henricus Huntingford LL.B., T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, M.DCCC.XXI (1821). In 8vo, p. [6],(26),540, unpaginated remaining Greek-Latin pages (in 2 columns). Full leather bound, with gilt decorated spine (title and oral ornaments) and covers (near edge lines); heavy worn, spine detached, front board rather restored, visible edge wear. Interior generally clean and tight.

Lot. 8084 Starting Price: 150 € ΘΟΥΚΥΔΙΔΗΣ, “THUCYDIDIS De bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo Latine redditi”, London, A. J. Valpy, Veneunt, R. Priestley, 1823. COMPLETE in ree (3) Volumes, bound together. 8vo, pp. xxii, 394 + 360 + 286. Printed in London at the eve of the Greek Revolution. Edited by Christoph Friedrich Ferdinand Haacke with text in Greek and comments in Latin. Contemporary binding: half leather. External wear along edges, rubbing, joints cracked, cloth on internal joint of front cover. Clean and tight inside with just occasional minor spotting.

Lot. 8085 Starting Price: 120 € ADAM Alessandro LL. D., “ANTICHITÀ ROMANE o Ragguaglio de’Costumi ed Istituti de’Romani, nel quale si espone tutto ciò che riguarda la loro religione […] classici latini / Prima versione italiana falta su l’originale inglese”, Napoli : Luca Marotta, 1825-1826. 3 volumes, in small 8vo, p. xiii,269,[3] – 367,[1] – 368. An early complete account on all aspects of Roman life (religion, government, laws, military, games, social institutions, dwelling, appearance etc.). Half leather binding with gilt title and numbering on spine, fabric decorated boards, slight wear. Spatial spotting and foxing inside, but clean and sound. Very Good copy.

Lot. 8086 Starting Price: 80 € [ΣΤΡΑΒΩΝ] STRABONIS RERUM GEOGRAPHICARUM Libri XVII / Editio Stereotypa, Sumtibus et Typis Car. Tauchnitii, Lipsiae, 1829. Two (out of three) volumes, in 16mo, p. [2], 407, [1]; [2], 467, [1]. e in uential Greek geographer who travelled widely, studied under both Aristotelian and Stoic teachers, and spent some decades in Rome, wrote his work early in the rst century. Along with the less-known geographers Aratus and Geminus, Strabo promulgated the idea that the torrid zone of the spherical globe was occupied throughout its length by an ocean which divided his continent from another antipodal one in the southern hemisphere. e “Geographies” of Strabo were ‘by far the most important source for ancient geography. Text in Ancient Greek. Original paper covers, visibly worn along extremities; heavy foxing and spatial spotting throughout, but clean and rather tight. Good copy.

Lot. 8087 Starting Price: 15 € CENTOFANTI S., “I POETI GRECI” nelle loro piu celebri traduzioni Italiane preceduti da un storico sulla letteratura Greca (ΠΡΩΤΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ), Livorno, 1853. Big 8vo, pp. cl,886, [2]. Text in Italian. Full leather worn throughout, semi-detached spine, interior with light foxing throughout.

Lot. 8088 Starting Price: 50 € [Επιστολές Αλκίφρονος] ΑΛΚΙΦΡΩΝ, MEINEKE August, “Alciphronis rhetoris Epistolae”, Lipsiae, sumptibus et typis B.G. Teubneri, 1853. 8o, pp. iv, 179. Κείμενο στα ελληνικά, εισαγωγή και σχόλια στα λατινικά. Ο συγγραφέας Αλκίφρων έζησε περίπου τον 3ο αιώνα μ.Χ. Οι «επιστολές» του αποτελούν μία πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα πηγή για τη μελέτη του αρχαίου κόσμου, παραθέτοντας πλούσιες πληροφορίες για τον ιδιωτικό βίο της κοινωνίας της Αρχαίας Αθήνας. Η συγκεκριμένη έκδοση της Λειψίας του Α. Meineke, βασίζεται στους κώδικες Vaticanus 140, Laurentianus plut. 59. 5 και τον κώδικα της βιβλιοθήκης του Αγ. Μάρκου VIII 2 και περιλαμβάνει θαυμάσιο κριτικό υπόμνημα, καθώς και ευφυέστατους στοχασμούς και κρίσεις του Meineke (πηγή: Πούλης Κ., «Κριτική και ερμηνευτική έκδοση των επιστολών του Αλκίφρονα», Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων, 2009).

Lot. 8089 Starting Price: 260 € [ΠΟΛΥΒΙΟΣ] LE STORIE DI POLIBIO da Megalopoli volgarizzate sul testo greco dello SCHWEIGHAUSER e corredate di note dal dottore I. KOHEN da Trieste, Unione Tipgra co-Editrice Torinese, Torino, 1855. Second Italian edition ( rst in 1824/1834, Milano), 9 volumes enclosed in 3 books, in 16mo: Vol. 1 - (Tomes 1-2-3) pp. 319 - 383 (1) 335 (1), Vol. 2 - (Tomes 4-5-6) pp. 334 (2) 284 (1) 251 (1), Vol. 3 - (Tomes 7-8-9) pp. 227 (1) 238 (1) 303 (1). Polybius, the known Greek historian of the Hellenistic period, is noted for his work e Histories, which covered the period of 264–146 BC and the Punic Wars in detail. e work of Polybius is popularized on the Greek text of the Schweighauser translation and notes by I. Kohen, doctor and historian of Trieste. Half leather binding, 5 nerves spine with embossed title and vol. number; marbled carton boards, wear mainly along edges. Page browning and spotting throughout, but clean and tight. Good copy overall.

Lot. 8090 Starting Price: 20 € CAROLO M., “ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ/ HERODOTI HISTORIARUM LIBRI NOVEM” recognovit et commentationem de dialect Herodoti praemisit DINDIRFIUS G. […], Parisiis, 1858. Big 8vo, pp. [4], xlvii, [1], 516. Parallel text in Greek and Latin. Later binding, half cloth with wear along joints. Interior with light spotting throughout, otherwise good condition. Signature & date of Alphons Diepenbrock (Dutch composer, essayist and classicist).

Lot. 8091 Starting Price: 30 € DINDORFII G., “Poetarum Scenicorum Graecorum” Aeschyli Sophoclis Euripidis et Aristophanis, fabulae superstites et perditarum fragmenta, Lipsiae in aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1869. Big 8vo, pp. xiv, [4], 127, [1] + xiii, [1], 172 + [4], 376 + [4], 232. Text in Greek and comments in Latin and Greek. Signature & date of Alphons Diepenbrock (Dutch composer, essayist and classicist). Half leather with wear along joints. Interior with light spotting throughout, otherwise very good condition

Lot. 8092 Starting Price: 15 € DOEMNER TH., “ΠΛΟΥΤΑΡΧΟΥ ΒΙΟΙ/ PLUTARCHI VITAE” secundum codices parisinos recognovit, Graece et Latine, Volumen Primum, Parisiis, 1877. Big 8vo, pp. [4], ii, 624. Parallel text in Greek and Latin. Later binding, half cloth worn and partially detached on upper half. Interior with light spotting throughout, otherwise good condition. Notes of Alphons Diepenbrock (Dutch composer, essayist and classicist).

Lot. 8093 Starting Price: 30 € [ΠΛΟΥΤΑΡΧΟΣ – Μ. ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ] BETOLAUD V., “Vie d’Alexnandre par Ploutarque / Edition classique”, Paris, Hachette, 1880. In 16mo, p. 140. Greek text. Clothed spine, carton boards, rubbed and bumped. Some foxing and spotting inside, but clean and sound. Good copy.

Lot. 8094 Starting Price: 40 € [ΛΟΓΓΙΝΟΣ ΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΣ]. “Διονυσίου ή Λογγίνου, Περί ύψους” / Έκδοσις μετά εισαγωγής, κριτικών υποσημειώσεων, λεξικού πίνακος, κ.λ. υπό Π. Σ. Φωτιάδου, Τύποις Εταιρείας - Π. Δ. Σακελλάριος, Εν Αθήναις, 1927. Σε 8ο, σελ. στ’,[2],139. Βιβλιοδεσία εποχής, στο πάνω καπάκι έχει επικολληθεί το εμπροσθόφυλλο. Καλό αντίτυπο.